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Tesla Nabs $465M Government Loan To Build Model S 505

Posted by timothy from the let's-call-it-the-people's-car dept.
SignalFreq writes "Tesla Motors, based in San Carlos, California, was approved yesterday for $465M in loans from the Department of Energy's Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program. Tesla plans to use $365M of the money to finance a manufacturing facility for the Model S (review, Letterman video) and $100M for a powertrain manufacturing plant in the SF Bay Area. 'Tesla will use the ATVM loan precisely the way that Congress intended — as the capital needed to build sustainable transport,' said Tesla CEO and Product Architect Elon Musk. Tesla expects the Model S to ship in late 2011 and the base cost to be $57,400 ($49,900 after a federal tax credit). Ford received $5.9B and Nissan received $1.6B under the same program."

Comment Same here (Score 1) 2

by slummy (#28296377) Attached to: To My Linux Nerd Bretheren that also have a Mac
I am a long time Linux user (Slackware, mostly).

I purchased my first MacBook last year, and this year my company gave me a MacBook Pro. I absolutely love these laptops, in my opinion they are of the highest quality.

I feel right at home in the Mac Terminal, all the GNU console programs I've grown accustom to are still available (after installing Mac Ports). The high price of Macs is something I can live without, but it's a nice thing to buy a laptop and not have to format the hard drive to install Linux. :)
Security

Submission + - Mandatory monitoring software creates botnet (bbc.co.uk)

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Death Metal
Death Metal writes: "Every PC in China could be at risk of being taken over by malicious hackers because of flaws in compulsory government software.

"We found a series of software flaws," explained Isaac Mao, a blogger and social entrepreneur in China, as well as a research fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

For example, he said, tests had shown that communications between the software and the servers at the company that developed the program were unencrypted."
Media

Submission + - Shareaza site hacked, SF.net project vandalized (pantheraproject.net) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: You may remember when imposters hijacked the domain of the original Shareaza team and later attempted to file a trademark with the USPTO for the name "Shareaza", which prompted the project's maintainers to move their site and begin working on a new project named Panthera. Now, it appears that the website for both projects has been removed entirely, while the project page on SourceForge has been defaced — renaming the project to "--" and with recent activity of multiple sockpuppet accounts being invited to the group. I have not seen nor heard any corroborating accounts on what potentially happened as of this writing. What's going on here?
Robotics

Submission + - RoboGames Land at San Francisco This Weekend (singularityhub.com)

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Singularity Hub
Singularity Hub writes: "The RoboGames are coming to San Francisco this weekend. Voted top ten geek-fest in the nation by Wired Magazine, Robogames promises 70 different events and endless hours of weekend entertainment. With so many events taking place in one weekend, there really is a big draw for almost any type of robot enthusiast. For the humanoid robot lovers, there are the autonomous humanoid robot challenges, including basketball, weight lifting, a soccer tournament and a marathon. Other categories include Sumo, where two opponents try and knock each other out of a ring, self-navigating robots, art-bots and a junior league for the wee ones."
Security

Secret US List of Civil Nuclear Sites Released 167

Posted by Soulskill from the no-harm-no-foul-right dept.
eldavojohn writes "Someone accidentally released a 266-page report on hundreds of sites in the US for stockpiling and storing hazardous nuclear materials for civilian use. While some ex-officials and experts don't find it to be a serious breach, the Federation of American Scientists are calling it a 'a one-stop shop for information on US nuclear programs.' The document contains information about Los Alamos, Livermore and Sandia, and opinions seem to be split on whether it's a harmless list or terrorist risk. One thing is for sure: it was taken down after the New York Times inquired to the Government Accountability Office about it."
Security

Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US 676

Posted by timothy from the subtle-messages dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The US Department of Homeland Security is set to kickstart a controversial new pilot to scan the fingerprints of travellers departing the United States. From June, US Customs and Border Patrol will take a fingerprint scan of travellers exiting the United States from Detroit, while the US Transport Security Administration will take fingerprint scans of international travellers exiting the United States from Atlanta. The controversial plan to scan outgoing passengers — including US citizens — was allegedly hatched under the Bush Administration. An official has said it will be used in part to crack down on the US population of illegal immigrants."
Security

Hackers Breached US Army Servers 209

Posted by timothy from the fine-line-between-clever-and-stupid dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A Turkish hacking ring has broken into 2 sensitive US Army servers, according to a new investigation uncovered by InformationWeek. The hackers, who go by the name 'm0sted' and are based in Turkey, penetrated servers at the Army's McAlester Ammunition Plant in Oklahoma in January. Users attempting to access the site were redirected to a page featuring a climate-change protest. In Sept, 2007, the hackers breached Army Corps of Engineers servers. That hack sent users to a page containing anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric. The hackers used simple SQL Server injection techniques to gain access. That's troubling because it shows a major Army security lapse, and also the ability to bypass supposedly sophisticated Defense Department tools and procedures designed to prevent such breaches."

Comment Re:GREAT! (Score 1) 83

by slummy (#27747451) Attached to: <em>Marvel Vs. Capcom 2</em> Confirmed For the PS3, 360
The only reason I had a Dreamcast was because Electronic Boutique was selling them for $19.99 at one point. I bought as many as I could and hit the Newsgroups for cracked games.

After a while I discovered a fantasic NES emulator, called NesterDC which increased my love for that system.

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